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Employees who are forced to use it at work. Some large companies put installation restrictions on third-party software for security reasons, and find that thro
by H12 5y ago
Employees who are forced to use it at work.
Some large companies put installation restrictions on third-party software for security reasons, and find that throwing money at Microsoft for an enterprise support contract is cheaper than re-engineering their ancient internal software to work on something other than IE.
And because these are also the types of giant companies that tend to shit money, there are plenty of mid-sized B2B saas companies willing to bend over backwards to win a contract and earn their droppings.
So I'm sure there are a good few developers forced to support IE11 by a bad contract who will be bummed by this news.
But full deprecation has to happen eventually, and it will only help the effort to have engineers telling middle management "the project will take twice as long because we have to support IE11".
- o_m 5y agoThis used to be the case, but not anymore. The new Edge browser has IE mode which makes the browser behave like IE 11. Only those using Windows XP and Vista won't be able to use the new Edge browser, but they have bigger issues, like not getting any security updates.